Adjective

(en adjective)

Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.

* , chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}

Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Full of anger; wrathful.

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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell.

* 1793,

And to be wroth with one we love,

Doth work like madness in the brain.

* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)

But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

* 1936 , (Dale Carnegie), (How to Win Friends and Influence People) , Part 3, Chapter 4

Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." [...]